Newfoundland name frequency list in Gazeteer of Canada
The eleventh principle of nomenclature, according to the Gazetteer of Canada, says new names should be
euphonious and in good taste.
This list has birds, beasts, fish (all of them tasty), colours, place,
size, shape, geography, condition, and trees preceded by their frequency.
Lance is mostly derived from the French l'anse meaning "cove".
Note the high number of Saint's (St.).
There are nearly twice as many north-south's as east-west's.
Greens, reds, and whites are more or less even but blacks preponderate.
There are more littles than bigs; more lowers than uppers, and a tremendous number of longs.
Animals in order of frequency are: seal, fox, deer-caribou-stag, beaver, horse-cow-goat, bear,
otter, whale, cat, muskrat, moose, and lynx; perhaps reflective of their (both wild and domestic) order
of economic importance to outport life.
15 73 32 75 103 330 62 33 35 147 35 18 29 18 26 25 57 66 49 63 |
Apsen Back Baker Bear Beaver Big Birch Blowmedown Bull Burnt (ed) Caplin Caribou Cat Clam Cow Cross Crow Deep Deer Dog |
101 11 99 117 53 20 106 65 80 220 51 19 42 43 104 139 15 31 495 351 |
Duck Eagle Flat Fox Freshwater Goat Goose Grass Great Gull Hare Hawk(e) Herring Horse Indian Island Juniper Lance Little Long |
115 5 29 158 17 23 68 81 21 15 125 108 27 193 112 107 28 135 81 69 |
Lower Lynx Man-o-War Middle Moose Muskrat Otter Pigeon Port Rabbit Rocky Round Saddle St. Salmon Sandy Sculpin Seal Shag Ship |
149 25 40 35 62 85 57 85 29 315 208 200 220 400 180 381 265 |
Shoal Spruce Stag Sugar Trout(y) Upper Whale Wild Wolf Black Green Red White North East South West |